Mulberry Marvels: Tonify Blood & Energise The Soul | Uses & Benefits

If the smell and sight alone of these dark potent clusters of juice don’t activate your blood.

These blood tonic berries, known as Tūta in Ayurveda, protect the cardiovascular system and “cool down” the blood, helping in inflammatory conditions like skin diseases, burning sensation, burning urination, fever and excess pitta.

That is why nature divinely organises so that mulberry trees start giving fruit at the beginning of summer, so we can harness their hydrating and cooling benefits just when we need them the most.

The sour unripe fruit is also used in Ayurvedic medicine as a laxative, however, beware because it has a heating action (usna virya) which aggravates the blood and pitta and is further harder to digest.

Stick to the dark coloured ripe berries for those harvesting the common red (Morus rubra and black (Morus nigra) mulberry).

In addition, the bark and leaves of this abundant tree are prepared into decoctions or pastes to help treat diseases of the throat. 

Overall, just finding a tree and harvesting mulberries is incredibly energising for the body and soul. 

Then reward yourself by eating the berries or drinking the juice and be imbued with tonic energy, especially helpful for those debilitated, fatigued, breast-feeding and exhausted post-childbirth.